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The Emotional Ecosystem: Nurturing Communities Through Feeling
Embracing emotional diversity in communities fosters resilience. By honoring all feelings, we create spaces for authentic growth and healing

afkar collective
Oct 19, 20243 min read


Innovation Ecosystems: How Local Communities Drive Global Success
Local innovation ecosystems: Where community-driven creativity sparks global change. Discover how your backyard could be the next big thing.

afkar collective
Oct 2, 20243 min read


Unleashing Innovation in the Middle East: Confronting the Paradox of Risk Aversion
Middle East's innovation held back by risk aversion. Overcoming cultural, regulatory barriers critical to unleash entrepreneurship.

afkar collective
Sep 16, 20243 min read


Emerging Innovation Frontiers: Reimagining Progress in a Post-Growth World
Innovation's new frontiers circular economy, biomimicry, social innovation, regenerative design, decentralized & wellbeing-focused approach

afkar collective
Sep 12, 20243 min read


The Simulacra of Intention: AI Language Models and the Erosion of Human Innovation
AI LLMs risk creating a simulacrum of intention, eroding genuine innovation. We must resist the hyperreal to preserve human creativity.

afkar collective
Sep 6, 20242 min read


The Truth, The Likely Falsehood, and The Post-Modern: Unmasking the AI Illusion
AI lacks moral agency. LLMs simulate truth, detached from reality. Their unchecked use widens the truth-fiction divide, risking catastrophe.

afkar collective
Sep 3, 20242 min read


The Digital-Physical Divide: Urban Technology's Struggle to Keep Pace with Climate Change's
Cities race ahead digitally but lag physically. Climate change exposes risks of outdated infrastructure. We must innovate in atoms.

afkar collective
Aug 26, 20243 min read


Inception, Seduction, and Reproduction: A Critical Analysis of AI's Current Trajectory
AI's path: from inception to seduction to reproduction. A hyperreal spectacle blurring reality and simulation, challenging our autonomy

afkar collective
Aug 21, 20243 min read


Climate Adaptation: Digital Twins vs. Traditional Modeling - Choosing the Right Path for Urban Resilience
Cities face climate challenges. Digital twins offer precision but are costly. Traditional modeling provides practical, accessible solutions

afkar collective
Aug 16, 20243 min read


The Crucial Role of Autoconsistency in Deploying AI Systems
Ensuring autoconsistency in AI is crucial for reliability, fairness, and user trust.

afkar collective
Aug 12, 20242 min read


Understanding Plural Pains: A Path to Healing in Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Regeneration
Plural pains" in post-conflict recovery: Understanding diverse traumas as a key to healing. Addressing collective & individual wounds.

afkar collective
Aug 7, 20243 min read


The Trap Around Digital Sovereignty in the Age of AI
Digital sovereignty in AI must balance autonomy with global collaboration to avoid isolationism, redundant efforts, and ethical blind spots.

afkar collective
Aug 5, 20243 min read


Applying Assembly Theory to Generative AI and Creative Realms
Assembly Theory is a framework that explores how complex systems emerge from simpler components through interactions and relationships.

afkar collective
Jul 27, 20245 min read


The Epistemological Implications of the Horizon Effect in AI
The horizon effect in AI shows its limited foresight, affecting long-term decision-making, trust, and ethical use. How can we mitigate this?

afkar collective
Jul 9, 20243 min read


The Dual-Edged Sword of AI: Technological Progress and Data Depletion
As AI advances, its reliance on vast data sets poses risks of resource depletion, epistemological issues, and entrenched bias.

afkar collective
Jul 3, 20243 min read


Reframing Strategic Partnerships in the Age of Generative AI
Discover how reframing strategic partnerships for the generative AI era can drive innovation, efficiency, and new market opportunities for b

afkar collective
Jun 28, 20243 min read


The Age of Fabricated Optimism: How Corporate Narratives Induce Consumption Amidst a Fragile Reality
Corporate optimism hides real threats like climate change and supply chain fragility, delaying action needed to mitigate looming crises.

afkar collective
Jun 19, 20243 min read


Gettier Problems in the Age of AI
Can AI provide true knowledge or just justified true beliefs? Explore Gettier problems and AI hallucinations in understanding machine 'knowl

afkar collective
Jun 17, 20244 min read


The States of Dogma: Techno-Progressivism, Deepfakes, and the Erosion of Open Societies
In an era where technology advances at a breakneck pace, the ideologies that drive these innovations can solidify into dogmas. These...

afkar collective
Jun 15, 20242 min read


Encoding Information in the Holographic Principle
The holographic principle's efficient info encoding echoes in LLMs like GPT-4: complex data compressed into dense

afkar collective
Jun 11, 20245 min read
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